Context integration in reliability assessment for service robots

Abstract

Reliability and Maintainability engineering is a well known field. Along the years several methods and techniques have been developed to deal with this type of problem. The great majority of the work developed hasn't been able to integrate context information correctly in their proposed solutions. Furthermore systems requiring reliability and maintainability have greatly evolved becoming more and more complex. For this reasons this is still a challenging and innovative field of research. In this paper a way for integrating context in reliability calculation is proposed.